If Democrats won a majority in both chambers of Congress as well as the White House, there would be a chance to repeal PLCAA. That result is still extremely remote even with the Axis media pimping for the anti-gun fanatics. According to Giffords Law Center, 32 states have a state-law version of PLCAA on the books that would still apply even if Congress successfully repealed PLCAA itself; the immunity would still apply for claims brought within those states’ courts.  Conveniently, these states, a majority, are not mentioned in the ABA Report. In a trial brief, such an omission could be viewed as unethical deceit.

In the final section of the ABA resolution report, the ABA’s history of targeting guns is recounted, starting in 1996, years before PLCAA was enacted. Even then the ABA was calling for gun victims to have legal recourse against manufacturers through civil tort liability. After all, guns kill people, people are just otherwise innocent agents that gun manufacturers and retailers turn into criminals, killers and suicides.

The ABA is virtue-signaling to its ideological allies. A non-partisan bar association would better serve the law and the profession, but that, as the saying goes, “is not in the cards.”

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Pointer: Rob Thompson